3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
1:36 a.m.
On 06/02/2013 12:06 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
david wrote:
Been doing it for many years now.
Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully
changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories.
Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages,
and it works flawlessly.
Greetings from the Debian upgrade treadmill ;-) I've learned it works most reliably if you upgrade
in two
stages:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
I just verify that it won't removing major packages, and do
a backup first if I see that the C libraries are going to change,
I always do a backup first. Have had trivial things like changes in X
video drivers make X unusable.
Although I benefit from the developments in
multimedia
software I'm not sure I like exposing my system to so many
opportunities for failure.
A strategy I've used in past is to *not* upgrade until I
need something. Maybe could call it it "choose your own
freeze".
I usually just upgrade what I want when I want.
I'm told this is sub-optimal because the package
upgrade
scripts are not tested against all previous packages.
Hmm, never heard that.
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